The Internet-First University Press Archive 001, 30 Apr 05

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This DVD was the first archival disc of material published online by the Internet-First University Press as an open access resource and contained about 6,000 pages of formatted text in portable document files, more than 11 hours of small image Quicktime video and more than 8 hours of lectures. This DVD requires a DVD-capable computer with (Quicktime Player and Acrobat Reader: both of which are available for Macintosh and Windows computers via the Internet. (Version 7 of each was used to test the disc.)

The disc contains 33 both new and reprinted books intended for the classroom or for outreach that deal with the sciences, technologies, humanities and histories : especially history related to Cornell. The working papers for a workshop on scholarly publishing are included as well as six volumes of an open access journal (CIGR).

The videos feature famous Comellians - including tributes to President Emeritus Dale Corson and the late Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe. In addition to the tribute, the Corson Symposium materials include a Gala Banquet and audio for three half days of lectures concerning the future of the research university. In addition to the tribute to Bethe, more than 4 hours and 22 minutes of lectures and conversations on topics ranging from the German Atomic Bomb Project to the early history of solid state physics. Discussants included Robert Wilson, Victor Weisskopf, Thomas Powers, Kurt Gottfried and David Mermin. Corson was named to the Cornell Center for Materials Research Hall of Fame, an event graced by the four living Presidents of Cornell University.

Other videos deal with Antigone, as part of a freshman experience, a public lecture about China by the Honorable Mark Kirk '81, the March 2005 dedication of the Life Sciences Technology Building and instructional materials on chaos by Prof. Strogatz and on the early history of artificial insemination narrated by Prof. Robert Foote.

The collection is completed by two undergraduate journals (The Visible Hand and The Quad) and the abstracts of the CALS undergraduate honors theses for three years.

NOTE: Since many of the items of this DVD are already in eCommons, the content of this DVD is NOT duplicated. Instead, links to existing items in eCommons are provided for items already in eCommons.

In Fall 2003, Sophocles' Antigone was a
prominent topic on the Cornell campus.
Chosen for the 2003 New Student
Reading Project, it was assigned
reading for all incoming students over
the summer. Upon their arrival ...

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This seventh edition of the Faculty Handbook, like its predecessors, is issued by the Office
of the University Faculty and is intended primarily "...to provide information for the
general guidance of faculty members, ...

This is a companion piece to the Book: "The Legacy of Dale R. Corson". These audio files are from Dale Corson's induction to the Hall of Fame of the Cornell Center for Materials Research from December 1999.

Hans Bethe and David Mermin Discuss the Early History of Solid State Physics [0:31:46]. February 25, 2003. In 2003 Hans Bethe at age 96 (plus 238 days) discussed the early history of solid state physics with David Mermin, ...

A Conversation with Emeriti Professors Hans Bethe and Victor Weisskopf [0:56:33]. In 1993 reflections are shared by two of the most prominent emigres from Europe on how they saw upstate New York when they came to the ...

A Conversation with Emeriti Professors Hans Bethe and Robert Wilson [1:03:24]. In 1993 Hans Bethe and Robert Wilson, both of whom were participants in the Manhattan Project, continue discussion of the atomic bomb projects.

An Evening with Hans Bethe: The German Atomic Bomb Project [1:29:56] On November 9, 1993 Hans Bethe interpreted the transcripts made of captured German atomic scientists when they first learned that atomic bombs had been ...

On December 1, 2004 President Emeritus Dale Corson was inducted as the second member of the new Hall of Fame being created by the Cornell Center for Materials Research in Clark Hall. Carson, who joins the founding Director ...

The Honorable Mark Kirk, Cornell class of '81, presented his thoughtful and provocative views on 'The Rise of China' in a November 8, 2004 lecture in Alice Statler Auditorium at Cornell University. Kirk has been named by ...

Tremendous changes in reproductive biotechnologies of animals and humans have
occurred during the past 50 years, more than occurred in the previous millenium. The
book is prefaced with a short chapter emphasizing what ...

As open journals become intellectual successes, they will come to substitute for subscription-based journals. The entry of two new journals specializing in economic theory, one a commercial subscription journal and the ...

As related in our previous reports, the populations of many rural New York communities are becoming more ethnically diverse. This diversification became especially noticeable in the 1990s with the upsurge in Mexican ...

Many upstate New York communities have experienced population loss and decline in the last decade. Increasing numbers of immigrants have settled in many of these communities, which poses possible community development ...